"Senator Paul was blindsided and the victim of an assault," Cooper said in an email. "The assailant was arrested and it is now a matter for the police.”

The arrest warrant in the case indicates that Paul told police his neighbor came onto his property and tackled him from behind, forcing him to the ground and causing pain. According to the warrant, Paul had injuries to his face and had trouble breathing due to a rib injury.

The KSP news release said troopers were called to the Paul residence at 3:21 p.m. Friday. According to the release, Boucher was arrested by Trooper Bartley Weaver and charged with assaulting Paul, a Republican who has been Kentucky's junior senator since 2011.

The Warren County property valuation administrator's website lists an address for a Rene Boucher on Rivergreen Lane, which is in the gated neighborhood just east of Bowling Green where Paul also resides.

Boucher is a Bowling Green anesthesiologist and pain specialist who developed a product called Therm-a-Vest, a cloth vest partially filled with rice and secured by Velcro straps that is designed to relieve back pain by delivering heat directly to the areas of the back where most pain is felt.

Boucher applied for a patent for the vest in 2003 and has marketed it through the QVC shopping channel.

An arrest warrant for Boucher was issued through the Warren County Attorney's office. The charge of fourth-degree assault is a Class A misdemeanor punishable by up to 12 months in jail. Warren County Attorney Amy Milliken said further charges could be brought, based on the extent of Paul's injuries.

The investigation by Weaver is continuing, and no other details were immediately available.

Sen. Rand Paul was assaulted at his home in Bowling Green, Kentucky by an irate neighbor while he was mowing his lawn on Friday afternoon, according to neighbors.

Kentucky State Police have arrested the senator’s assailant, identified as Rene Boucher, 59, of Bowling Green for intentionally assaulting Paul at his home, causing minor injury, local law-enforcement officials confirmed to Fox News.

Boucher was arrested and charged with one count of 4th degree assault – minor injury. He was taken to the nearby Warren County Detention Center where he is being held on $5,000 bail.

A second neighbor told local news station WNKY said that the Senator was mowing his lawn around 3 p.m. on Friday when Boucher assaulted him. The neighbor also confirmed that the two share a corner adjacent to their homes and have been embroiled in an ongoing feud.

The assailant could face up to a year in jail for the Class A misdemeanor. Local newspaper, The Bowling Green Daily News reports that Warren County Attorney Amy Milliken said Boucher could face extra charges.

Rene Boucher was arrested and charged on friday after he assaulted neighbor Sen. Rand Paul over a long standing feud. (Warren County Jail)

Officials for Sen. Paul’s office say that the former presidential candidate did not suffer any major injuries.

"Senator Paul was blindsided and the victim of an assault," Kelsey Cooper, a spokeswoman for Paul, said in a statement to thehill.com. "The assailant was arrested and it is now a matter for the police. Senator Paul is fine.”

Voting records from the Kentucky State Board of Election list Boucher as a registered democrat, according to The Daily Caller. A person with his name also works as an anesthesiologist in Bowling Green.(Some broad who obviously doesn't need/want or deserve the attention. T.E.)

The Daily News also reported that Boucher was awarded a 2003 patent for a pain relief product called Therm-a-vest, which was sold on QVC in 2005, according to a news report at the time.

A Facebook account that is alleged to be maintained by Boucher was found to contain multiple anti-Trump postings.

No doubt he has an account here and is probably for open borders for Muslims.

Originally Posted by acptulsa

Boy, when you get fixated on a subject, no matter how irrelevant it may be to the rest of the known universe, it just consumes your whole reality. Doesn't it?

Don't look now, kahless, but your beer went flat because it's for open borders for Muslims. And your electric bill is due because the power company is for open borders for Muslims. And the weather outside is not a perfect 72 degrees for you because it's for open borders for Muslims. Deal.

Last week, someone farted in my elevator. Was probably one of them Moslems who arrived via our open borders.

"An idea whose time has come cannot be﻿ stopped by any army or any government" - Ron Paul.

I hope he's okay. As others have pointed out, it sounds like a neighbor dispute. Of course the Democrat turns to violence and is not even honorable about it, either. Really? Jumping a man from behind? Pussy.

Originally Posted by Ron Paul

The intellectual battle for liberty can appear to be a lonely one at times. However, the numbers are not as important as the principles that we hold. Leonard Read always taught that "it's not a numbers game, but an ideological game." That's why it's important to continue to provide a principled philosophy as to what the role of government ought to be, despite the numbers that stare us in the face.

I hope he's okay. As others have pointed out, it sounds like a neighbor dispute. Of course the Democrat turns to violence and is not even honorable about it, either. Really? Jumping a man from behind? Pussy.

He's lucky the Pauls aren't Bushes. Or McCains or Grahams - they'd be hovering over gitmo in a rendition jet.

Except as to the rule of appointment, the United States have an indefinite discretion to make requisitions for men and money; but they have no authority to raise either by regulations extending to the individual citizens of America.

Plus, you could have just stayed in your ancestral home in Europe instead of leaving for the New world

Could have also avoided the colonization of many lands that already had people living in it.

Maybe also build a long giant wall like the Chinese did around Euro lands.

And lastly, never leave your mama's basement cos the less people u interact with, the safer you will be. That is backed up by all criminal statistics

Just saying

You can maintain power over people, as long as you give them something. Rob a man of everything, and that man will no longer be in your power.Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Originally Posted by LibertyEagle

Trust principles; not people.

My Che avatar is my unique way of giving a big middle finger to the, the neocons, the globalists, imperialists and most importantly to the left and right political establishment who hate his guts till this day. My admiration for him ends where his anti imperialist pro communism ideology starts.

Kentucky State Police Master Trooper Jeremy Hodges said he could not release details of the assault because of security issues. Hodges did say that Boucher is an acquaintance of Paul. CBS affiliate WNKY reports the Boucher is a neighbor of Paul's.

Hodges said Boucher would have faced more serious charges if had he used a weapon or if Paul had been injured seriously.

"If he was using any type of a dangerous instrument, then it would have been a felony charge," Hodges said by telephone Saturday.

According to WNKY, the the FBI believe that the attack was politically motivated.

There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator
and our liberty comes from our creator. It has nothing to do with government granting it. -Ron Paul

"Each of us must choose which course of action we should take: education, conventional political action, or even peaceful civil disobedience to bring about necessary changes. But let it not be said that we did nothing." - Ron Paul

"Paul said "the wave of the future" is a coalition of anti-authoritarian progressive Democrats and libertarian Republicans in Congress opposed to domestic surveillance, opposed to starting new wars and in favor of ending the so-called War on Drugs."